Agent Earle wrote:Wadda joke. The Return can go stand in some corner when it comes to Season 2!

Compared to episodes 8 through 14, yes, this was nowhere near as good on straight quality. I'll take it over anything after that, though, including the series finale perhaps. The shows are so different, though, it's almost inaccurate to call them by the same title.

While I don't agree with your assessment of the later part of S 2 (I personally am a great fan of it, always have been), I wholeheartedly do regarding the title of the new show - a lot of confusion and animosity would be avoided if they simply removed the title "Twin Peaks" or maybe included it only as a subtitle, "A Twin Peaks Tale", for example). I'm flabbergasted as to how can you rate S 2's finale lower than the new show - is it because it contains Windom Earle & Annie?

Last Sunday my wife (not an obsessive TP fan like I am, but she saw and enjoyed everything multiple times) said: “I truly miss waiting for Dougie in a new episode”. More than that, she admitted that she liked TP:TR more than S1 and S2, although she also added that she would’ve probably not enjoyed TP:TR without S1.

IcedOver wrote:Compared to episodes 8 through 14, yes, this was nowhere near as good on straight quality. I'll take it over anything after that, though, including the series finale perhaps. The shows are so different, though, it's almost inaccurate to call them by the same title.

While I don't agree with your assessment of the later part of S 2 (I personally am a great fan of it, always have been), I wholeheartedly do regarding the title of the new show - a lot of confusion and animosity would be avoided if they simply removed the title "Twin Peaks" or maybe included it only as a subtitle, "A Twin Peaks Tale", for example). I'm flabbergasted as to how can you rate S 2's finale lower than the new show - is it because it contains Windom Earle & Annie?

Last Sunday my wife (not an obsessive TP fan like I am, but she saw and enjoyed everything multiple times) said: “I truly miss waiting for Dougie in a new episode”. More than that, she admitted that she liked TP:TR more than S1 and S2, although she also added that she would’ve probably not enjoyed TP:TR without S1.

Agent Earle wrote:While I don't agree with your assessment of the later part of S 2 (I personally am a great fan of it, always have been), I wholeheartedly do regarding the title of the new show - a lot of confusion and animosity would be avoided if they simply removed the title "Twin Peaks" or maybe included it only as a subtitle, "A Twin Peaks Tale", for example). I'm flabbergasted as to how can you rate S 2's finale lower than the new show - is it because it contains Windom Earle & Annie?

Last Sunday my wife (not an obsessive TP fan like I am, but she saw and enjoyed everything multiple times) said: “I truly miss waiting for Dougie in a new episode”. More than that, she admitted that she liked TP:TR more than S1 and S2, although she also added that she would’ve probably not enjoyed TP:TR without S1.

Had she been drinking? lol

Good for her I say!

She says Dougie reminds her of me in the morning, before coffee.I am NOT going to ask her if it’s somewhat a compliment!!!!!

yaxomoxay wrote:Last Sunday my wife (not an obsessive TP fan like I am, but she saw and enjoyed everything multiple times) said: “I truly miss waiting for Dougie in a new episode”. More than that, she admitted that she liked TP:TR more than S1 and S2, although she also added that she would’ve probably not enjoyed TP:TR without S1.

Had she been drinking? lol

Good for her I say!

She says Dougie reminds her of me in the morning, before coffee.I am NOT going to ask her if it’s somewhat a compliment!!!!!

That's funny. Wow you must drink strong coffee to snap you out of Dougieville in the morning.

Watching Michael Ontkean - and Jose Ferrer- in Tales of the Unexpected episode “Man From the South” (where he bets his pinkie for a J-A-G... car) and thinking about how unspoiled S1&2 Harry Truman has remained by S3. He’s safe in Jamaica, healthy and young in my mind now. Good on ya, Mr O. Did you ever find your coat? He was up for a continuation in 1991, suggesting a “series of movies.”

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1991 ... rike-quiet I just respect his meaningful abscence so much, for whatever reason. Piper Laurie, too. Joan Chen wrote that lovely dreamy drawer pull letter and she got recycled footage, I wonder if she feels she dodged a bullet...

sylvia_north wrote:Watching Michael Ontkean - and Jose Ferrer- in Tales of the Unexpected episode “Man From the South” (where he bets his pinkie for a J-A-G... car) and thinking about how unspoiled S1&2 Harry Truman has remained by S3. He’s safe in Jamaica, healthy and young in my mind now. Good on ya, Mr O. Did you ever find your coat? He was up for a continuation in 1991, suggesting a “series of movies.”

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1991 ... rike-quiet I just respect his meaningful abscence so much, for whatever reason. Piper Laurie, too. Joan Chen wrote that lovely dreamy drawer pull letter and she got recycled footage, I wonder if she feels she dodged a bullet...

I can certainly relate to the general concept of absent characters "getting out of Dodge" from sequels I dislike. And, remembering that the old show arguably ended with a whopping three characters being better off than before FWWM started, I've always joked that anyone who didn't show up for the new show dodged DKL handing out yet more character-defining flaws and life-ruining events. I could say that for... Chet? Catherine? But Harry managed to be under the spotlight more than if he'd actually been on screen...

I also have trouble understanding this mindset. Even taking it as a given that S3 was a steaming pile of turd — a perfectly valid viewpoint even if I don’t share it — I personally have always found it relatively easy to separate crappy sequels from beloved originals. Messrs. Corleone, Lecter, Bond, Stark, Jones (Indy), etc., are all alive and well in my imagination, and I’m happy to frequently revisit their better works without giving a thought to the lesser sequels. It gets a little hairier with a continuing-narrative TV series — I’ll probably never revisit Dexter because, as great as the first couple of seasons were, I think of the show as one long story that gets really really bad after the first few chapters. But S3 of TP is so attenuated from the original run in terms of time, tone, and everything else, it feels much more like the equivalent of a bad Alien or Terminator sequel. Why not just ignore it if you hated it?

sylvia_north wrote:Watching Michael Ontkean - and Jose Ferrer- in Tales of the Unexpected episode “Man From the South” (where he bets his pinkie for a J-A-G... car) and thinking about how unspoiled S1&2 Harry Truman has remained by S3. He’s safe in Jamaica, healthy and young in my mind now. Good on ya, Mr O. Did you ever find your coat? He was up for a continuation in 1991, suggesting a “series of movies.”

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1991 ... rike-quiet I just respect his meaningful abscence so much, for whatever reason. Piper Laurie, too. Joan Chen wrote that lovely dreamy drawer pull letter and she got recycled footage, I wonder if she feels she dodged a bullet...

Interesting. But why do you wonder if Chen feels like she dodged a bullet? In what way do you mean?